Refer to:
‘. The Labour Bureau under Ministry of Labour and Employment has been carrying out household surveys somewhat similar to EUS since 2010-11.’
Hence, I is incorrect

‘The household surveys somewhat similar to EUS since 2010-11. They show a decline in worker-population ratio between 2013-14 and 2015-16, suggesting a deteriorating employment situation’
II is correct.

‘Since 1972-73, five-yearly Employment-Unemployment Surveys (EUS) conducted by National Sample Survey (NSS) have been mainstay for analysing labour market trends.’

Biennial refers to an event that takes place every or year while this used to occur every five years. III is incorrect.

Only II is correct.

Hence, option B is correct.

Refer to: ‘The remaining workers are in non-farm informal sector, spread across rural and urban areas. In fact, it is this sector that has grown in recent decades at expense of or two sectors mentioned above. Moreover, nearly half of informal labour workers are self-employed in household (or own account) enterprises, often engaging unpaid family labour. Varying degrees of under-employment or disguised unemployment are defining feature of informal labour markets.’

Only I and III are correct. II is incorrect as paragraph states only about half of workers are self employed or engaged in unpaid labour and not ‘almost all’.

Hence, option D is correct.

Spawned means to produce or generate a large number of.

II, III and IV are all synonyms and hence incorrect.

Only destroyed is opposite of spawned.

Hence, option A is correct.

Refer to:
‘.. estimates are based on administrative records of implementing social security schemes, whose completeness, consistency and accuracy are unknown; and since a formal sector worker, in principle, can legitimately access more than one social security scheme, double counting is a distinct possibility. The release does not explain how problem is addressed in database. Therefore, rightly, experts have demanded release of administrative data for independent verification.’

As per highlighted fragments, I and II are correct while III is not.

Hence, option B is correct.

Statements I and II are correct and weaken impact of report. Both state that informal employment stats have not been provided and that this area forms majority of employment in India.

Statement III is incorrect. It reinforces importance of report by stating it strengns or similar data.

Only I and II are correct.

Hence, option C is correct.

All of statements above are valid/plausible reasons for job growth to be less than growth in economy.

Hence, option E is correct.

Paragraph 3 talks about how social schemes are applicable to a firm only once it reaches a certain threshold and how this shows that people under a particular scheme may have increase by a huge amount but that does not correspond with an increase in actual employment. Basically, social security database is not a good source to understand about employment data.

This eliminates option B.

Option C is also incorrect as paragraph does not state that enrolling is voluntary. Option D is incorrect as re is no matching of numbers as stated in paragraph.

Only option A gives best gist and states that databases simply have list of workers under scheme but do not depict correct employment figures.

Hence, option A is correct.

Skepticism means a skeptical attitude; doubt as to truth of something.

I and III are synonyms while II and IV are antonyms.

Hence, option C is correct.